The Damned United (2009)
Country: GB
Technical: col 98m
Director: Tom Hooper
Cast: Colm Meaney, Michael Sheen, Timothy Spall
Synopsis:
Young tyro football manager builds up Derby County with the help of his talent scout assistant, then accepts the job at Leeds United, sometime nemesis with whose manager's methods he does not agree. Suffice to say he is not welcomed with open arms by the players, and his tenure is shortlived.
Review:
Concentrating on Clough's formative years (and doing so in a-chronological fashion in a way writer Peter Morgan would later bring to perfection in The Crown), the screenplay interestingly leaves the subject's glorious vindication at Forest to a footnote, preferring to anatomise his successes and failures; his key relationship with Peter Taylor and his Achilles heel, namely umbrage taken over an unwitting slight suffered years previously at the hands of Leeds manager Don Revie. It's a fascinating watch, anchored around Sheen's typically magnetic central performance. Columbia and BBC Films also deliver a handsome production which nevertheless does justice to leaner times.
Country: GB
Technical: col 98m
Director: Tom Hooper
Cast: Colm Meaney, Michael Sheen, Timothy Spall
Synopsis:
Young tyro football manager builds up Derby County with the help of his talent scout assistant, then accepts the job at Leeds United, sometime nemesis with whose manager's methods he does not agree. Suffice to say he is not welcomed with open arms by the players, and his tenure is shortlived.
Review:
Concentrating on Clough's formative years (and doing so in a-chronological fashion in a way writer Peter Morgan would later bring to perfection in The Crown), the screenplay interestingly leaves the subject's glorious vindication at Forest to a footnote, preferring to anatomise his successes and failures; his key relationship with Peter Taylor and his Achilles heel, namely umbrage taken over an unwitting slight suffered years previously at the hands of Leeds manager Don Revie. It's a fascinating watch, anchored around Sheen's typically magnetic central performance. Columbia and BBC Films also deliver a handsome production which nevertheless does justice to leaner times.
Country: GB
Technical: col 98m
Director: Tom Hooper
Cast: Colm Meaney, Michael Sheen, Timothy Spall
Synopsis:
Young tyro football manager builds up Derby County with the help of his talent scout assistant, then accepts the job at Leeds United, sometime nemesis with whose manager's methods he does not agree. Suffice to say he is not welcomed with open arms by the players, and his tenure is shortlived.
Review:
Concentrating on Clough's formative years (and doing so in a-chronological fashion in a way writer Peter Morgan would later bring to perfection in The Crown), the screenplay interestingly leaves the subject's glorious vindication at Forest to a footnote, preferring to anatomise his successes and failures; his key relationship with Peter Taylor and his Achilles heel, namely umbrage taken over an unwitting slight suffered years previously at the hands of Leeds manager Don Revie. It's a fascinating watch, anchored around Sheen's typically magnetic central performance. Columbia and BBC Films also deliver a handsome production which nevertheless does justice to leaner times.